Huskies Haven't Convinced Everyone They're a Top 25 Team

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From 1908 through 1916, Gilmour Dobie never lost a game as the University of Washington football coach. His record at UW: 59 wins, zero losses, three ties.

Washington’s unbeaten streak from that era remains the longest in the history of college football.

Washington’s 1915 team is one of the most dominant in college football history, finishing with 7-0-0 record and outscoring its opponents 274-14. That season opened with a dubious 31-0 win over Ballard High School (it wasn’t uncommon for college teams of that era to play high school teams), but it also included a 72-0 shellacking of California in Berkeley during the two schools’ first meeting as rivals in the Pacific Coast Conference, the precursor to what would become the Pac-12 Conference.

Two years later, in Washington’s first conference game after Dobie’s forced resignation, California stunned UW in Berkeley, 27-0. Thus ended the longest unbeaten streak in college football.

“WASHINGTON SUFFERS DEFEAT,” read the banner headline in The Seattle Times on Nov. 4, 1917.

UW hates football. Nothing has changed

RaceBannon

RealRhino

We essentially need better marketing. Shit just amazes and confuses me. Oregon is what, No. NINE in one of those things?

Just taking things somewhat objectively, this shit doesn't make sense. We finished better than Oregon just last year and have more all-conference (incl. honorable mention) players returning, including our fucking QUARTERBACK, yet somehow we are fringe top 25 while ASU and Oregon are top 15. WTF?

I'm not even saying we shouldn't be fringe top 25. DMo and our offense have to show more than last year. Our WRs need to step up. Our D needs to stop the run and get off the field better on 3rd down. But the idea that these other teams *that weren't as good as us last year* somehow leapfrogged us despite our having lost (checks notes) TWO guys of note is crazy.

Does everybody not realize the Ducks are starting a new QB? One that couldn't beat out the old QB who was so mediocre they ran him off?

whlinder

That fucking 2002 game...

I was there.

Fuck Rick forever for that one. He needed to be fired on the 50 for that game.

MikeDamone

UW will lose to unranked Michigan. It’s the script. We always lose to Michigan on the road.
Not in 1984!!!

Football started in 1994. HTH.

TTJ

That fucking 2002 game...
That and losing to Cal got Rick fired.

Imagine losing to Cal

I miss #losingtocal being a firable offense, dammit.

But for real for real, what mainly got RN fired was UW’s vehement hatred of winning.

DerekJohnson

Little known fact: Chris Petersen's grandfather was the UW offensive coordinator in the mid 1950s...

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Little known fact: Chris Petersen's grandfather was the UW offensive coordinator in the mid 1950s...

Did the offense suck then too?

DerekJohnson

Little known fact: Chris Petersen's grandfather was the UW offensive coordinator in the mid 1950s...
Did the offense suck then too?

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Little known fact: Chris Petersen's grandfather was the UW offensive coordinator in the mid 1950s...
Did the offense suck then too?

Hurtful

rodmansrage

Bammer loses a lot, my guys. If Saban steamrolls CFB with this team, it will probably be his greatest feat yet.

cfb has a big fucking problem if that happens.

espn has a bigger fucking problem if that happens.